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Harvard's first exhibition of significant contemporary painting is now at the Fogg. Junior fellow Michael Fried has gathered nineteen major works by Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, and Frank Stella into a comprehensive statement of abstract art of the mid-sixties...
Before proceeding to a tour of the major galleries, two institutional events should be noted. First, the Fogg Museum at Harvard is now showing "Three Americans," a display consisting of six monumental paintings each by Noland, Olitski, and Stella. Michael Fried, who organized the exhibit, considers these three young artists to be among the best in the world today...
Louis and Noland, often paired because they worked together in Washington, began to gain recognition as the heyday of the abstract expressionists passed. In contrast to the abstract expressionists' frenzy of free-swinging brushstrokes, Morris Louis, who died suddenly two years ago at the age of 50, turned out paintings in which any trace of imagery or personality disappeared into cool, lush fields of color. With his sherbet-soft spectrum, Louis made floral-petal shapes and stripes like awnings that left yawning, bare canvas between them...
...Kenneth Noland, 40, who studied with Abstractionists Ilya Bolotowsky and Josef Albers at Black Mountain College, produces work that is harder edged, but his thinly applied geometries was not immediately popular. Noland's first two one-man shows, in 1956 and 1957, went untouched. But by 1959 the tide had changed. In the past year, five major museums have bought his canvases, and today he commands prices averaging...
Disneyland Chevrons. Noland rarely paints smaller than 4 ft. by 4 ft. Yet he does not want machinelike perfection. "I'm a one-shot painter," he says, and in his Bridge he deliberately left the splatter of orange on yellow. Noland dares to parallel magenta, russet, beige and maroon in a lollipop war of taste. Sometimes he rams and jams his bright color bands into asymmetrical chevrons like a Disneyland sergeant gone askew...